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We are committed to engaging multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower our clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. For over five decades, we've connected the lessons of past failures with tomorrow's solutions to advise clients as they innovate technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability.
Join our team of experts with degrees from top programs at over 500 universities and extensive experience spanning a variety of industries. At Exponent, you’ll contribute to the diverse pool of ideas, talents, backgrounds, and experiences that drives our collaborative teamwork and breakthrough insights. Plus, we help you grow your career through mentoring, sponsorship, and a culture of learning. Thanks for your interest in joining our team!
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Attracting, inspiring, developing, and rewarding exceptional people with diverse backgrounds and expertise are central to our corporate culture. Our diverse team allows us to provide better value to our clients and enjoy an enriched work environment. Work Environment:
Exponent is a proud equal opportunity employer.
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may email us at HR-Accommodations@exponent.com.
Job Locations: UK-North Yorkshire-Harrogate UK-Derbyshire-Derby UK-London Dublin DE-Mannheim
Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve our clients’ most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges.
We are committed to engaging multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower our clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. For over five decades, we've connected the lessons of past failures with tomorrow's solutions to advise clients as they innovate technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability.
Join our team of experts with degrees from top programs at over 500 universities and extensive experience spanning a variety of industries. At Exponent, you’ll contribute to the diverse pool of ideas, talents, backgrounds, and experiences that drives our collaborative teamwork and breakthrough insights. Plus, we help you grow your career through mentoring, sponsorship, and a culture of learning. Thanks for your interest in joining our team!
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- 950+ Consultants
- 640+ Ph.D.s
- 90+ Disciplines
- 30+ Offices globally
We are currently seeking a Senior Scientist for our Chemical Regulation and Food Safety Practice in one of our European offices (located in Ireland, the UK, Germany or Switzerland). Remote working is also an option. In this newly created role you will work as part of a diverse team of experienced food safety, quality, regulatory and nutrition experts, to provide chemical technical support primarily on food contact materials, but also on novel foods, food additives, labelling and other food regulatory and food safety related issues within Europe and other countries.
You will be responsible for: - Providing high quality technical scientific and regulatory advice to colleagues and clients
- Contributing to successful completion of complex, multidiscipline projects, including regulatory submissions in the UK and EU
- Building and developing successful client relationships
- A minimum of a BSc in chemistry, biochemistry, food science or a closely related field with a strong preference for a higher degree
- Knowledge and experience of working with European (and UK) regulatory frameworks relating to food, including but not limited to, food contact materials (preferred), novel foods, food additives and/or food contaminant legislation
- In depth knowledge and practical experience of analytical chemistry (chromatographic methods preferred), with understanding of their application in regulatory settings
Desirable Skills would include:
- Confidence in collating, reviewing and interpreting scientific data and information
- Experience of data interpretation and problem solving
- Experience of working in a team environment especially multi-disciplinary project teams
- Evidence of and aptitude for networking (e.g. with external experts, business managers, representation on industry or inter-agency task forces, committee membership in a professional society, contacts across industry)
- Experience of working in a government agency, a food industry role or a food testing laboratory
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Attracting, inspiring, developing, and rewarding exceptional people with diverse backgrounds and expertise are central to our corporate culture. Our diverse team allows us to provide better value to our clients and enjoy an enriched work environment.
At Exponent, we have found that in-person interactions deepen employee engagement and are crucial for development, for realizing the full potential of our talented and diverse teams, and for building a more inclusive workplace where all have a sense of belonging. In our offices, you can expect a supportive culture and a collaborative, dynamic, multi-disciplinary work environment. Our consultants engage in-person in the office unless they are traveling for client work or other business activities.
We value the rich lives our colleagues enjoy outside of work and understand that work/life balance is critical to our employees and their well-being. Consultants have the autonomy to balance their work and personal schedules so you can meet with clients, visit inspection sites, attend conferences, and make time for priorities outside of work, too. It is this flexible, agile work style and working hours that allow our teams to drive innovation and results in their own ways, while meeting the needs of clients.
Our firm is committed to offering a variety of programs and resources to support health and well-being. We believe that providing competitive benefits as well as compensation and recognition programs empowers our staff to do work that makes a difference.
Exponent is a proud equal opportunity employer.
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may email us at HR-Accommodations@exponent.com.
Job Locations: UK-North Yorkshire-Harrogate UK-Derbyshire-Derby UK-London Dublin DE-Mannheim
